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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24

heaven and eternal life that would make
thoughtful person hesitate about going
there. For such it may be well enough
that hell is painted in still
more frightful colors. Jesus. how
ever, tells us in one word that
to live is to know; eternal life is to know
God and Christ. Mr.. Drummond says:
''FrOm time to time the taunt is thrown
at religion, not unseldom from lips
which science ought to have taught
more caution, that the future life OF
Christianity is simply a prolonged ex-
iStence, an eternal monotOny, a blind
and indefinite continuance of being.
The Bible never could commit itself to
any such empty platitude; nor could
Christianity ever offer the world hope
so colorless." Eternal life does not
mean merely an everlasting breathing
spell, but rather eternal living; eternal
learning and loving and righteous ac-
tivity.
To know God is to possess those prin-
ciples and that Being whom Jesus called
Father; the Being who lever lives and
loves" and in whom we shall ever live
and learn and love. o my friends,
Christ's view of heaven and of unend-
ing life is most alluring. By the voice
OF duty Jesus commands us; by the
voice of friendship he warns us; and
by the voice of learning and love he
allureS us to the highest, hottest, happi-
est life. He who knows most is most
alive. He who knows God knows most.
Learn OF Christ that you may know
God.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24
CONGO FETICHES.
The Curious Things Priced by
SaVages as Efficient AmuJets.


Every Congo negro carries m'kissi
upon himself; and there may be thou
sands of them that escape the eyes of
the white man. The n'ganga, or medi-
cine man, is usually the lubricant of the
fetch, and whatever he finds good to
impose upon his supplemented breth-
rem for high price, sewed up in cloth
or leather or inclosed in a goats horn. is
dOubly valuable in the eyes of it's new
pOSSessOr, because he believe that his
IN kiSSi stands in a personal relation to
himself: and he cannot be induced to
give 1t up to white man for any price.
Among these amuletS are dried snakes
and lizards heads, little pieces of skin,
feathers of certain birds, and parts of
known poison plants. The eye teeth of
leOpardS are an exceedingly valuable
fetch on the Kroo coast, and it is seasy
to buy with them articles of vastly more
real value, like ivory rings, etc. The
Kablnda negroes wear little brown
shell, very much like our linneus, on
their neckS. The shells are sealed with
wax, and are made, perhaps, vessels
containing magic medicines. The
large snail shells found in the
cassava or manioc fields on the
Kuilu Niadi are also m'kissi and
are set in the fields by the women
who till them to protect their pIanta-
lions. One of the chiefs in the upper
Kuilu Niadi, in N'kuangila, has
m'kissi ag ainst the tornado; it is an an
telOpe horn. On the approach of
storm the king calls his people together;
the horn is stuck in the ground and a
dance is begun around it, which is kept
up, in spite of wind and rain until the
tornado is over. Every house in the
village has its m'kissi; they are fire.
quently put over the door or brought
inside, and then they protect the house
from fire and robbery. These penates of
the negroes are sometimes figures very
artisticaily cutin wood or ivory and show
a certain degree ofnative skill and taste
in the people. But it is not the guard
ians of his house only that the negro
thus represents in material figures; he
also gives corporeal form to diseases,
like smallpox and fever. Every town
has its war fetch. The hyphene palm
tree on the Kuilu shows how the negro
sees spirit at work in the wonders of
nature which he cannot explain. That
tree was m'kissi to the whole village.
s Good medicines with which the negroes
are acquainted, or of which they expert
ence the salutary effect, are also called
mkissi. A negro called dose of cas-
tor Oil which gave him m'kissi mbote,
OF good medicine.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24
MINNEAPOLIS PERSONALS
M. Foote has removed to 525 South

C. M. Foote has removed to 525 South
Tenth street.
II. G. Mandt of the extensive wagon works
at Stoughton, Wis, is stopping at the Nicol-
let.
Among the arrivals at the st. James: F.
w. Parrott, Fargo, Oak. j. C. Fyfe, Duluth !:
K; jenkins, Racine, Wis. Frank Hogeboom'
Chicago.
Miss Nellie Hagny, who has been the guest
of her sister, Mrs. NJ. d. Elgin, left last even.
ing to join her parents in Southern Cali
fornie.
Among the arrivals at the Clark: Charles
Barton, Albert Lea; II. Carroll, Grand Forks
OAK X. ): Thomas, Watertown, Oak. J. M
Elliott, Albert Lea - -"
Among the arrivals at the Nicollet: w. IT
Bradley, Watertown, OAK; B. b. Blake. Ra.
cine, Wis. u. w. Williams, Marshall: John
Rothwell, Madison, Wis. 0'''i'
Among the arrivals at the Windsor: u n
Patrick, Litchtield; Jay Anderson and wife
Walla Walla, W. T.; j. C. w, Cox, Washing,
ton, To-; F. l.. Stone, Hayward, Wis.
Among the arrivals at the West: L. F.
Watson and wife, Warren, Pa u. A. Smith
and wife, Washington, d. c.. A. Gayton. San
francisco, Cal: G. G. Barnum, Duluth
George L. Sutherland and wife. Fargo OAK ,,
George b. Mason, Eau Claire, Wis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24
KNOWLEDGE AND LIFE,
Theological Law is not Necessary
to Gain Heaven.

Rev. W. j. Lhamon preached from
John xvii. 3, at the Church of Christ yes
terday. He said:
''Is it possible to know God? We
must not stop at theory nor be per
picked with theology and philosophy.
nor be cheated with sciences falsely SO
called. These are but the chaff, and
shells and huskS of knowledge. There
are fashions in philosophy and science.
just as there are in coats and bonnets.
But as the man benea tn the coat re-
mains much the same, SO of conscious
ness and action; these things proceed
always from the Godlike something
that is in the man, whatever his philo-
SOphy may be.
There is sense in which to know is
to be. To know grammar is to be a
grammarian. To know music is to be
musician. To know medicine and man
is to be physician. To know Christ is
to be Christian. To know God is to
be Godlike. This is the sort of knowl-
edge that Jesus talks of when He saws.
''This is eternal life, that they NAV
know thee.'' To knowledge of this
sort there is another side. We may
know thing in its uses and enjoy it
without knowing it's composition
and relations, its limitations or
inflnitudes, its essence or substance.
So we may have the saving knowled
of Christ and of God without ever so
much as having heard of the theology
of Nice and of Constantinople, of Trent
or of Westminster. do not wage an
lndlScrlminate war on all theology.
Like Sam Jones, 81 do not know much
about theology and botany, but l love
religion and fiOwers.''
Experimental knowledge in religion
is as sensible and necessary a thing as
experimental knowledge in blacksmith
ing. The smith has an experimental
knowledge of his hammer and anvil, of
charcoal and iron, a daily. yearly, grow
ing knowledge of it all. Therefore he
lives the life of smith; he is a smith.
SO the man who knows the love of
Christ and of God and learns thereby
the lesson of lifelong love toward all
men and the father of all; the
man who knows the truth of Christ
and puts it into his daily life
the man who trusts God and Chris
enough to pray his way serenely through
dark days and bright. aiming always to
do right; that man is Christian; he
knows what goodness is, for he does it.:
and what Godliness is, for he is Cody.
There are ideas and descriptions of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24
Our Army's Equipments.

Journal OF the Military Service Institute.
From the present standpoint of the
world, our troops can boast of offensive
weapons inferior to none; but as regards
the other items of necessary equipment
of the soldier in the field, we are i'm a
verse than transition state, scarcely
any two companies in the army being
uniformly equipped, and very often
two, three, even four, kinds of expert
mental equipment being In use at the
same time, in the same company. The
real anxiety of the war department to
get the very best, to keep pace
with the most advanced progress
of the age, is undoubtedly the
prime cause of this state of
things, but the fact remains, that the I'M
portunitieS of inventors, and the kind
heartedness of officials, saddles the
army with an un-uniformity of grotesouc
and impracticable bags, boxes and
absurdities of all kinds. At recent in
spection of four companies of infantry
equipped for field service land at which
the writer was present, one company had
blanket bags, another rolled blankets.
as in the war, another the cumbrous
shoulder braces and bags, while the
fourth had men equipped in all these
styles. These different articles were in
the hands Of the men by proper orders
and regular issue; but however effect
i've the command might have proven in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24
A DEBATE OF REFORMERs.
A Socialist and Disciple of Henry
George Gross Swords.

george gross swords.
The meeting of the Anti-Poverty soci-
ETY., which was held last night at Win
dom hall, was fairly well attended, de-
spite the chilling blasts of winter that
whistled along the streets. Mr.. Car
penter, vice president of the society,
presided, and the meeting was alter
nately addressed by c. J. Buell. and
Fritz Gellerup, except when it was in
terrupted in Spasm0dic manner by an
old party, who wanted to know how if a
man owned property here, and mort
gagged it to man in Boston, two
people having a certain interest in
that property, well-he wanted to know
how Henry George, when he came to
power, was going to foist any on else on
that land; then the completely of this
great question dawned OH his magma
ton, and ne sank exhausted in a chair.
Z. }. Buell., in very lucid manner,
explained the chief theories of Henry
GeorglSm. The law of every country
should De that the resources of all the
land should be enjoyed by all the
people,; that was the design of
God; the resources of nature ought
to be the common property of all:
the resources of the earth including the
mlne-the feld-the Water-in fact
every thing, should be shared alike.
These things were of no use, that was
potent fact, till man came and utilized
them: Then the increase in towns in
population, wealth, and so OH, ensues
and values rise, and few are benefited,
and the majority are hurt, that was
where the trouble lay. Then the fact
should be recognized that land values
are caused by all the people therefore
land values should belong to the people.
What was the use of mere talking.
There was a remedy for all this trouble
In the world and that remedy was to let
every man pay into common fund a
certain sum to be ascertained, abolish
taxes and run the earth for all she is
worth; let every one pay in their share
and every one would receive the after
benefits. 1t was like ship. 1t would
not do to divide a vessel up and give
every man one-ffth, but run her for all
she is worth and declare a dividend of
one-fifth. that all might receive of the
profits their share. Fritz Gellerup made
some remarks in reply to this, and called
1t logical reasoning. 1t was supposed
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24
THE GAMBLERS RAIDED.
Seven Men Captured at 1OS Wash
ington Avenue South.

There were wild and tumultuous
times in the building at 10s Washington
avenue south at an early hour yester-
day morning in which revolvers were
drawn, and things assumed decidedly
threatening air. For several days past
reports have been coming into
police headquarters that gambling
house was running in full blast there.
About o'clock Sunday morning a force
of police visited the place, and after a
bit of hard work captured the proprietor,
William Ademar, and six men, all of
whom were placed in the First precinct
station. When the officers first entered
the room the men, who were playing
poker. were somewhat surprised and
made break for liberty. Two or three
showed fight, but when revolvers were
drawn by the policemen they threw up
their hands and dropped" One
of the men, who showed the most fight,
felt very bitter over having revolver
pointed at him, and has threatened all
sorts of things. Early in the morning
Judge Mahoney, of the municipal SQUIRT,
was seen, and ordered all the men re-
leased after they had given bail of $3.50
each. This money was put up by John
Flanagan and William Ademar. 1t
will be remembered that some months
ago Ademar became involved in shoot
ing atfray with one Mel FitZ, another
gambler, over game of cards, which
took place in this same room. Both
men we're indicted by the grand jury,
but escaped with small fines.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULEs.

The new Peabody school opens this morn
ing.
School wirl commence in the new Peabody
building to-day.
The council committee on water works
meet Tuesday morning.
The ladies of the Church of Christ will
give an entertainment Wednesday evening.
Rev. j. P. Pinkham made striking tenn
perance address at Tollefson's hall yesterday
afternoon.
Z. l.. ). 9. this evening at the parlors of Cen
tenary church.
Rev. Kristofer Jansen began the reading of
his new novel, Minneapolis Inside'' at the
Nazareth church,
Tomorrow evening there will be a musical
Avenue ME-. church.
The ladies of the First NJ. E. church will
give reception to their pastor, Rev. ohm
Stafford, Wednesday, at the church.
Rev. H. M. Simmons addressed the White
Cross society at the First Unitarian church
yesterday afternoon ON 1.-The Ethics of So
cial Purity"
An entertainment will be given for the
benefit of the Maternity hospital, next Friday
evening by the Ladies' Circle of the First
Unitarian church.
Tomorrow afternoon there will be a special
meeting OF the directors of the home for
children and aged women at the guild room
of st. Marks church.
There will be musical and literary enter
ta1nment at the Franklin Avenue Methodist
church tomorrow evening, for the benefit of
the Sunday school piano fund.
There will be meeting at $50 Boston
block this evening, when an association viii
be formed to cooperate with the American
Free Trade league in promoting revenue re-
form.
A glance at the hotel registers will con-
vince the most skepticaI person of the value
of the Exposition to this city. A person can
lmost tell the opening and closing DAYS of
this great exhibition by the arrivals on the
registers.
The new hall of the Eighth Ward Relief
association, situated on Lake street. near
Stevens avenue, was dedicated yesterday
afternoon. Owing to the stormy day the at
tendance was not as large as was expected.
The exercises were quite Interesting.
Brother w. w. Satterlee is irrepressible in
the prohibition conflict. Yesterday after
noon he addressed an audience in Chestnut
hall and succeeded entirely in convincing his
hearers that high license was an utter failure
in the matter of reducing the drink custom.
At the installation service making DIR. Bur
rell pastor of Westminster church next
Wednesday evening, Rev. S. J. Mcpherson.
D. D., of Chicago, will preach the sermon;
Dr.. Robert Christie, of st; Paul, will deliver
tho charge to the pastor; Dr. S. NJ. Campbell.
of Park Avenue church, will deliver the
charge to the people, and prayer will be Of
fered by Rev. j. b. Donaldson.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24
LITTLE INTERVIEWS.
Brief Conversations of Well
Known Citizens on Current

j. Z. notwithstanding with this week
the Hennepin Avenue theater adopts its
schedule of popular prices as originally in
tended. The price of seats after this will
range from 10 cents to 81, except upon occa-
sions of big attractions, when we will be COM
PEELED to advance the price of seats in order
to clear expenses. Even then we shall try to
make 81 the maximum price. l see by the
Cincinnati Enquirer that Emma Abbott has
been singing to 25-cent admission, and I
think we can afford to give the people of
Minneapolis chance TO attend amusements
more than once or twice in a season without
bankTupting them. I'd rather have house
full OF people at low prices who enjoyed the
play than thin house made up strictly of
aristocratS at high prices. 1t costs no more
10 heat and light the house, and I'd rather
feel that the people do not regard Sackett d
Virgins as robbers: so low prices 'go''
Mayor Ames-I think that the Tribune
editorial favOring the suppression of the
Prison Mirror at the saltwater penitentiary
is decidedly characteristic of the men who
run it. The souls of Blethen and Haskell
are of peanut dimensions, and just because
the Mirror made a sharp little crack at the
insulting editorial aimed at President Cleve-
land ana his wife they want to have it SUD-
pressed. l have too much respect for Gov.
McGill to believe that he will be influenced
by the personal desires of such narrow
minded and yindictive men. have always
reflected with good deal of pride upon the
feet that was once q newspaper man and
Hustled for the elusive item with the best of
them. but when such unprincipled men as
Blethen and Haskell get into the newspaper
business am inclined TO go back on my old
profession.
G. W. Johnson-The Union league. which
is in charge of the matter of inviting the
national Republican convention TO Mime
apOlis, will of course do nothing for the
Democratic convention, but any argument in
favor of the former is equally effective for
the latter.
Judge Atwater-My understanding of the
status of the Tribune case is this: First
y. j. Blethen has relieved himself from all
responsibility for the editorial in question,
and has expressed his deep regret for the
appearance of the article in the Tribune.
Second-W. E. Haskell has assumed the
authorship of the article, and has thus far
made no apology for the same. Now what
many Republicans and Democrats who have
hitherto patronized the paper desire to know,
is whether the paper is to continue under its
present management and no further apology
No be made: If SO, as we understand the
author of the article holds the controlling
interest in the concern, it will be understood
that the Tribune has no apology to make.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24
THE NEW SANITARY CODE.


1t might not be out of place to remind
the public mat the new code of sanitary
regulations is now in force, and that
while nearly every householder, and
certainly every landlord, in the city is
vitality interested, ignorance cannot be
pleaded in cases of violations of the
laws. They have been officially pub
liShed and are III legal force, and it is
the intention of the board of health to
rigidly enforce them. Though the au-
thOrity to establish and enforce sanitary
regulations was given over four years
ago, it remained for the first Democratic
health officer to be sufficiently alive to
his duty to take the necessary steps.
There can be no magnifying the i'm
pOrtance to this or to any city of the rigid
enforcement of a thorough sanitary
code, and DR.. KILvINGToN and his as
sociates on the board of health, Aid.
II. c. MORSE and G.. w. COOLEY, de-
serve not only the warmeSt commenda-
ton of the community, but its active as
siStance and cooperation in this matter
The health officer is the bette noir of a
certain class, and the fact that he Stirs
up enemies is only an indication of the
zeal with which he performs his duty.
DIR. KLVINGToN has met with many
been expected, and even now is at con-
tinual war with the landlords and scav-
engerS of the city, who resent his Off
cial researches as personal interference
with their ris nts. But the people are be-
hind him in the good work, and the city
will gradually educate itself to the appre-
citation of the importance of the public
health. 1t might have been expected
that physicians, as a class, would be the
first to cooperate with the health de-
partment, but the fact is, as DR.. Kill
VINGToN states, that the greatest diff
Guilty is experienced in compe ling GER
tain physicians to comply with the most
necessary regulations in the case of con-
tagious and infectious diseases. 1t is
not out of place to call the especial
attention of these doctors and of the
undertakers of this city to the new code
and to urge their hearty cooperation in
its enforcement.
The code is too long for publication,
as it is as comprehensive as the necessi-
ties of the subject demand. 1t is based
upon the most improved sanitary regu-
latiOns in force in other cities, with adj
ditional and special provisions to CEN
form to this climate and locality. 1t is
believed it will meet every requirement
and the assurance is given by the health
officer that i'll its enforcement he will
know neither fear nor favor.
There are still certain matters of the
municipal law, in reference to the regu-
lation of building and plumbing, which
require correction, but the council is
bent upon having thoroughly effective
system and will remedy this difficulty
at once.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24
MINNEAPOLIS
THE NATIONAL CONVENTIONS.

THE NATIONAL CONVENTIONS.
The article in the SUNDAY GLOBE
containing the Minneapolis bid for the
great national political conventions of
next year, with the comments of prom
lnent citizens of both parties, was
widely read and very generally COM
mented upon. 1t had been the idea of
many who were interested il the sub
Ject that it was entirely too early to agi-
tate the matter, ana that danger might
result if the bid were prematurely
made, but they acknowledged their
error when they subsequently learned
of the call for the Republican national
committee as early as December at
Washington. The idea was suggested
to the GLOBE by the fact that other as
piring cities are already active in their
canvass and without the knowledge of
the fact that the Union league had con-
sidered the same thing. The result
was that the league committee at once
brought its work to a focus and COM
pleted the formal invitation, spurred to
that end by the questions propounded
everywhere by ubiquitous GLOBE re-
pOrterS. The substance of the invita-
ton is given in another column, and
will be read with interest. 1t has been
previously held to be advantageous TO
hold the conventions of the two leading
parties in the same city, and if the Re-
publican committee should allow its
choice to fall upon Minneapolis, SIM
liar invitation from the Democrats will
carry still greater weight. There is no
argument, political or otherwise, that
may be advanced by one party, that will
not be of equal force for the other. 1t
is certainly the sense Of all people of
Minneapolis that both conventions be
invited here, and that the effort is worth
the making, even though it be unsuc-
ceSSful.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-24
Still at the Front.

C.. P. Stevens & Son. the furniture
house on Fifth, have not been making
as much noise in the papers as some of
their competitors, but they have been
very busy all the same, and the goods
they are daily sending out prove they
are keeping up their old reputation for
selling the best work to be had and at
fair prices. They have been unloading
this week some splendid goods from
Grand Rapids, and can show better
chamber suites to-day for the price than
have ever been seen here. A big car of
the Wisconsin Central was just opened
yesterday, containing lot of the WEIGH
folding beds, for which Stevens has the
agency. If you have never seen them,
call and examine. They are the best
folding beds in the world.
Nothing Succeeds Like success.
Everybody is pleased with the cabi-
nets they get at Nye's for only So pei
Dozen